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All Carrot, No Stick – The Peak Time Rebate
Giving people an incentive to voluntarily reduce energy usage during peak demand is what Ted Reguly of San Diego Gas and Electric discusses in this video interview. Reguly discusses the challenges of making customers aware of the program and then giving incentives appropriate to a given customer. He suggests that the role San Diego Gas…
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3M Connectivity Points in 18 Months in Ohio
Connecting the rest of Ohio with broadband is the goal of Agile Networks. In this interview at the TIA 2012, Agile Networks’ CTO Kyle Quillen explains how they will be using a hybrid network of fiber and wireless to bring broadband to both the unserved and served areas of Ohio. The roots of this project…
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Discovery and Learning in Silicon Valley
“Learning is the process of discovering and exploring,” says former student and ClassConnect founder, Eric Simons. Simons talks about the importance of putting rich (e.g. video, audio, interactivity) content into the hands of students to engage them in the learning process. His company, ClassConnect, has content curation and creation tools that fit into a teacher’s…
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Home Energy Management as Content
“The furnace and the air conditioner in the average home accounts for almost 50% of energy use, so, it’s a big-ticket item about a $1,000 a year in the average home,” according to John Steinberg, EVP of Business Development and Co-Founder of EcoFactor. EcoFactor provides an energy management service with an initial focus on heating…
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Demystifying Home Energy Technology at Retail
“Our job is to demystify the technology,” said Kristen Bowring Senior Director, Platform Lead, Home and Energy Management at Best Buy at the 2012 Smart Energy Summit. In this interview, Bowring explains how Best Buy has created home energy departments in three of their stores, in partnerships with utilities, to test how they can educate customers…
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The Elements of TV Everywhere
Transcoding of video streams to serve multiple devices via multiple networks is becoming a core element of a video solution, regardless of the type of delivery method. As explained in this video interview with Elemental Technologies’ CEO Sam Blackman, the use of Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) is the secret sauce behind their encoding and transcoding…
